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capo 2 — sounds 2 semitones higherIntro
| G | % | C/G D7sus4/G | G C/G | G |
Verse 1
Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks
D | G C/G | G |
When you’re tryin' to be so quiet?
G C D | G C/G | G |
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it
D | G C/G | G |
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin’ you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
G | D Dsus4 | D |
But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off
G C D | G C/G | G |
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
C G/B D | G C/G |
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
Interlude
| G | C D | G C/G | G |
Verse 2
In the empty lot where the ladies play
C D | G C/G | G |
Blindman’s bluff with the key chain
G C D | G C/G | G |
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the “D” train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
[bass plays C over "hear" and then corrects itself to D on "watchman"]
D | G C/G | G |
Ask himself if it’s him or them that’s insane
Louise, she’s all right, she’s just near
She’s delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
| D Dsus4 | D |
That Johanna’s not here
G C D | G C/G | G |
The ghost of ’lectricity howls in the bones of her face
C G/B D | G C/G |
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
Interlude
| G | C D | G C/G | G |
Verse 3
G C D | G C/G | G |
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
G C D | G C/G | G |
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
D | G C/G | G |
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He’s sure got a lotta gall
To be so useless and all
C G | D Dsus4 | D |
Muttering small talk at the wall while I’m in the hall
G C D | G C/G | G |
How can I explain? Oh, it’s so hard to get on
C G/B D | G C/G |
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn
Interlude
| G | C D | G C/G | G |
Verse 4
G C D | G C/G | G |
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
G C D | G C/G | G |
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
D | G C/G | G |
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
C | D Dsus4 | D |
Hear the one with the mustache say, “Jeeze, I can’t find my knees”
G C D | G C/G | G |
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
C G/B D | G C/G |
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel
Interlude
| G | C D | G C/G | G |
Verse 5
G C D | G C/G | G |
The peddler now speaks to the countess who’s pretending to care for him
G C D | G C/G | G |
Sayin’, “Name me someone that’s not a parasite and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him”
But like Louise always says
| G C/G | G |
“Ya can’t look at much, can ya man?”, as she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev’rything’s been returned which was owed
C G | D Dsus4 | D |
On the back of the fish truck that loads while my conscience explodes
G C D | G C/G | G |
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
C G/B D | G C/G |
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain
Outro
| G | C D | G C/G | G |
| G | C D | G C/G | G |
(fade out)
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